Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hardman, Benjamin August 5, 1844 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 6, 2006, 10:57 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Jackson Township p. 564 & 565 Benjamin Hardman was born Aug. 5, 1844, in Wayne County, Ind. On attaining his majority he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and when twenty-two years of age was married to Hester, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Beaver, early settlers of Wayne County. They have one daughter---Dora Ellen. Soon after his marriage he moved to the farm where he has since followed farming. His farm consists of eighty acres of choice land. He has a fine frame barn 36 x 56 feet. Mr. Hardman and wife are members of the German Baptist church at Locust Grove. Our subject's father, Daniel Hardman, was born in 1799, a native of Kentucky. He was married in Ohio to Elizabeth Pressel, and soon after came to Wayne County, Ind., where he entered 160 acres of land from the Government, which he cleared and followed farming till his death, Sept. 9, 1877. His wife died Feb. 23, 1873. They reared a family of nine children, all of whom are living--- Jonathan, Polly, Gabriel, Daniel, Israel, Eli, Benjamin, Joel and Elizabeth. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/hardman37gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb